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Scobie John/Buddhist Food for Thought 021215 SGI-UK/Japan

A translation of President Ikeda’s “To My Friends”
published in the Seikyo Shimbun and more.

Thursday, Feb 12th, 2015
— TO MY FRIENDS —
[I will raise the precious successors of Soka
into people even more capable than myself!]
The attitude and resolve of a leader
is what determines and shapes the future.
Let’s always begin by chanting strong and deep daimoku!

Thursday, Feb 12th, 2015
— DAILY GOSHO —
“If you care anything about your personal security, you should first of all pray for order and tranquillity throughout the four quarters of the land, should you not?”

(On Establishing the Correct Teaching for the Peace of the Land
– The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, Vol. 1, page 24)
Selection source: “Kyo no Hosshin”,
Seikyo Shimbun, February 12th, 2015

Friday, Feb 13th, 2015
—- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT —-
“Nichiren Daishonin writes: ‘One is the mother of ten thousand’ (WND-1, 131). The dynamic development of the new era of worldwide kosen-rufu also starts from the actions of a single individual. It starts from standing up as an individual, speaking to one person, encouraging one person, igniting the torch of hope in the heart of one person.

“We are still in the very earliest stages of this new era. We are certain to encounter obstacles in our path and be assailed by storms of tribulation. However, as the British philosopher Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) observed: ‘Hope, not fear, is the creative principle in human affairs.'[1]”

SGI Newsletter No. 9192, The Song of Human Victory, Celebrating the 40th Anniversary of the SGI, from 22nd Jan., 2015, issue of the Seikyo Shimbun, translation released 31st Jan. 2015